Gampesaw is not only a dues-paying member, but also publicly acknowledgesthat he got his first administrative position as an Associate Provostat the Univ. of Delaware partially through the effort of Asian Am.faculty members talking to the Administration that its top echeloncould benefit from diversity.

America selects leaders who have convictions, are willing to take somerisks for their convictions, and are persons of integrity. Just havingknowledge, ability and skills are not good enough to be leaders. Thoseattributes normally only earns a person a high-paying job. Actually, eventhe "high pay" may not be realized, if the person is deemed as timid.

Join 80-20. Using a credit, go http://www.80-20initiative.net . Using acheck, please send it to 80-20 PAC P.O. Box 603 Osprey, FL 34229.Please be sure to denote your e-address on the back of the check.

Anyone joining now will be a member for the remainder of this yearAND the whole of the next year. A NEW member's dues will be match by a $3,000 fund donated by Prof. Chenming Hu of U. of CA, Berkeley.

* Among 80-20 members, there are a President of AAAS which is the largest science org. in the world, a large number of elected officials, a former college president and a chancellor, deans, department chairs, Chair professors, CEOs of large banks and companies, presidents of National Asian Am. organizations, and members of The Committee of 100. So pls. join 80-20 and be counted.

Monday, November 15, 2010

In CA, 80-20 lost a battle (Brown won & Whitman lost) while gainingstrategic grounds. Strategically, 80-20 punishes any politician, D or R, whoignores Asian Ams' rightful concern to be equal citizens. Brown courts unions.But he was too busy for AsAms. Are we too timid to get his attention? Tocounter Brown's arrogance, 80-20 strategically stepped up and got into1) a state-level race as it sooner or later must and 2) trying a SWING bloc vote,as it sooner or later must.

Here are the CNN exit polls*. We again compare how AsAms voted in thegovernor's race versus the US senate race, as we did in Sen. Reid's case.

Note that 1 out of every 5 Asian Ams chose NOT TO VOTE in thegovernor's race although they voted in the senate race. That caused the% of Asian Am voters in the governor's race to be only 4% of the total votesas compared with the 5% AsAm share in the senate race.

Such a difference in % is EXTREMELY unusual. It indicates that 1 out of5 Asian voters agreed that Brown should be punished for ignoring ourconcerns, but they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Whitman. Afact that Brown should carefully note!!

When the above voters (1 out of 5 or 20%) are combined with the38% who did vote Whitman, it means more than half of AsAm voters werein favor of punishing Brown.

Overall, Brown beat Whitman by 11 pts, while Boxer beat Fiorina by 9;hence Brown won the race by 2 more pts than Boxer. However,so far as Asian Am. votes are concerned, Brown's winning margin is 8 ptsless than that of Boxer.

Shortly before 80-20 endorsed Whitman, Asian Ams favored Brown by65 to 7 according to a Rasmussen poll. The final drastic differenceshould alarm Gov. Brown. Will Brown now address Asian Ams'concerns?

If he does, 80-20's California Coalition may be please to work with him.Otherwise there is always the NEXT election. 80-20 may even shopfor an opponent for Brown in a Democratic primary 3 years hence and avery tough Republican opponent for him 4 year from now.

One way or another 80-20 shall fight for Asian Ams' rights to beequal citizens, using each election as a precious window.

On Oct. 18, 80-20 received a request from a very high levelDemocratic official to help boost Sen. Reid's campaign. At the time,practically all polls predicted that Reid would be defeated. Knowingthat Sen. Reid, if victorious, would still be the Senate Majority Leader,80-20 jumped in* to help.

See how the same AsAm voters gave the Democratic candidatefor Governor in NV much lower % support, although blacksand Latinos voted pretty much in the same %s. This clearlyindicates that Asian Ams responded strongly to 80-20's urging.

All Asian Ams win, when we either succeed in helping a friendlypolitical leader, or in punishing an obstinate candidate who ignores us.

Join 80-20. Membership dues of NEW members will be matched, thanksto a $3000 donation by Prof. Chenming Hu of Univ. of California, Berkeley.Using a credit card, go to http://www.80-20initiative.net/. Using a check,send to

80-20 PACP.O. Box 603Osprey, FL 34229.

Respectfully,S. B. Woo, a volunteerActing President, 80-20 PAC, Inc.

* 12 years ago 80-20 also took risks to jump in during our darkestpolitical days -- when both political parties competed to distance fromAsAms, after the so called "Asia Gate." Many AsAm orgs hid while 80-20 announced its aim to organize the entire AsAm community into apolitical bloc for self protection.

P.S. (1) 80-20 needs more email addresses of Asian Ams in NV. Pls helpsend e-addresses to me.(2) Soon, 80-20 will share with you the exit poll results in CA, and how 80-20will be wiser and stronger from the experience of CA's races.

Thursday, November 04, 2010

We are like-minded. We must be honest with each other about what wehave together achieved and failed in the 2010 election.

On the surface, we won some and lost some. 80-20 focused on 4 races.We won 2 - Sen. Boxer of CA and Sen. Reid of NV. We lost 2- Whitman ofCA and Gov. Strickland of OH.

However, strategically a very different picture emerges.

(1) Strategically, 80-20 for the first time* stepped into state-levelelections in the critical states of CA and OH. In CA, we have thelargest % of voters, 8%. In OH, a perpetual battleground state in presiden-tial elections, 80-20 has 4 chapters, one each in the largest cities of OH.

(2) Strategically, 80-20 for the first time ventured into delivering aSWING bloc vote. Just being able to deliver a bloc vote for Dshas severe limitations. Can we deliver one for Rs when called for? Toillustrate, blacks have always delivered a huge bloc vote for Ds. Butit can NOT swing. Thus far only the Jewish Am community has theability to swing.

(3) Tactically, in spite of breaking into new frontiers, 80-20's CACoalition induced Whitman to give us concrete commitments - a first for aGOP nominees. To top that, Gov. Strickland (D) of OH answered all yesesto our chapters' questionnaire. It is also important for 80-20 to admit thatit has much to learn tactically in being involved in state level races.

(4) Substantively, 80-20 has demonstrated that it is not a Democraticfront. It is loyal to the interests of the Asian Ams ONLY.

80-20 has incurred a $25,000 deficit this year owing to election expenses.Will YOU help? Join 80-20. Every $35 or $50 or $1,000 will help.

Be sure to enter you e-address in the back of your check. Dues of NEWmembers will be matched by a $3,000 donation from Prof. ChenmingHuof UC Berkeley.

Act to empower 80-20, while 80-20 empowers YOU & YOUR CHILDREN.80-20 is doing the best it can, will you do your best please?

Respectfully,

S. B. Woo, a volunteerActing President, 80-20 PAC, Inc.

* Strategically, 80-20 has advanced from working on a bloc vote inPresidential election in CA ONLY in 2004; to Congressional races acrossthe nation in 2006; to engineering a bloc vote in a Presidential primaryin CA in 2007, and to actively campaign for our endorsed candidateObama outside of CA in battleground states in the general election in2008.